"Our main purpose here is to grow more food to feed more people, but to do it in a way that feeds the land as opposed to stripping the land and to do it in away that has the flexibility and resilience to withstand the upcoming changes in climate and the world and all the things that are unpredictable,"
"This land had been left abandoned and completely uncultivated for close to 50 years when we took it over,"
"So the elevation that w"
Ma'alot Farms sits on a hill in Los Gatos and produces hundreds of pounds of produce donated to food banks and kitchens to address local food insecurity. The farm uses sustainable, regenerative agricultural processes to provide diverse foods year-round and to restore soil and ecosystem health. Ma'alot Farms functions as an alternative source of food amid reductions to federal nutrition assistance. Shoshana and Philip Ohriner purchased and restored an abandoned walnut grove in 2017, installed water systems in 2022, planted a thousand fruit and nut trees, and continue expanding production and resilience to climate change.
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